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ON THE RUN: Here’s what is likely Peter Madsen on the run from prison. Photo: KENNETH MEYER / EXTRA MAGAZINE
The man convicted of the murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall is said to have tried to escape from prison on Tuesday.
Peter Madsen, sentenced to life in prison, is said to have tried to escape from Herstedvester prison in Denmark on Tuesday, according to information from Danish Ekstra Bladet.
Herstedvester Prison will be reserved for some of the worst criminals in the country and has around 150 inmates. Madsen himself is said to have wanted to be transferred to prison in August 2018.
On Tuesday morning a police operation is underway in Albertslund, on the outskirts of Copenhagen, and Danish police announce that they are related to a prisoner trying to flee. The area is cordoned off and there is a large police force.
Albertslund is only a few hundred meters from Herstedvester Prison.
Footage from the scene shows two snipers lying on the ground and staring at a man who is supposed to be Madsen sitting in a ditch.
Several Danish media claim that he came out threatening to carry a bomb. The bomb squad is on the scene with a robot.
Swedish freelance journalist Kim Wall visited Madsen on his submarine in August 2017 to write a report on the matter, when he disappeared.
Two years later, the Copenhagen city court sentenced the Danish inventor to life imprisonment for Wall’s premeditated murder. This is the most severe punishment that can be imposed in Danish criminal law.
He has also been convicted of sexual abuse and desecration.
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Throughout the trial against him, he affirmed his innocence. However, he was sentenced to life in prison for Wall’s murder in 2018.
Madsen himself has only admitted to having separated Wall’s body and believes he acted in a panic. He explained that he died as a result of poisoning aboard the submarine.
In a recent Danish Discovery Networks documentary, Madsen, on the other hand, confesses to being behind the murder.
– It has nothing to do with who’s to blame. It’s my fault she died. And it’s my fault, because I committed the crime. It’s all my fault, he says in a phone conversation with a journalist from “The Secret Footage” on Discovery.
